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Veltman Distributie Import Books (226)
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Noise
2022 || Paperback || Daniel Kahneman e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The Sunday Times bestseller'A monumental, gripping book ... Outstanding' Sunday TimesWherever there is human judgement, there is noise.
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A Brief History of Intelligence
Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI
2023 || Paperback || Max Bennett || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.
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Hidden Potential
The Science of Achieving Greater Things
2023 || Paperback || Adam Grant || Veltman Distributie Import Books
"This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress."
-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.
We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school,...
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Burning Questions
Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022
2023 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this brilliant selection of essays—including three new pieces—the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...
• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handm...
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Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO
2024 || Paperback || Peter Apps || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A history of NATO, the intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states, from WW2 to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Love, Pamela
2023 || Paperback || Pamela Anderson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
TO LIVE
AND DREAM
IS A WICKED DANCE.
MY DREAMS OFTEN COME TRUE-
A CURSE,
AND A BLESSING.
PAMELA ANDERSON's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was quickly launched into superstardom, becoming Playboy's favourite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sex appeal. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth her true stor...
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror
2023 || Paperback || Mizuki Tsujimura || Veltman Distributie Import Books
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!
A Studio Ghibli-esque work of Japanese translation “that lays bare the anxieties and desperation—and the small triumphs—of adolescence” (Locus), for fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Heaven.
Seven students find unusual common ground in this warm, puzzle-like Japanese bestseller laced with gentle fantasy and compassionate insight.
Bullied to the point of dropping out of school, Kokoro’s days blur together as she hides in her bedroom, unable to face her family or f...
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12 Bytes
How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love
2022 || Paperback || Jeanette Winterson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' Observer
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding and provocative essays from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson
Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bewildering manifestations, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science, to help us understand the radic...
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Starborn
How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them
2023 || Paperback || Roberto Trotta || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human.
For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. One of our species' most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself, yet in the glow of today's artificial lighting, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos.
Stargazing has shaped the entire course of human civilization. The rhythm of our ancestors' lives revolved around the stars, from cycles of agricultur...
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Our Final Invention
Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
2023 || Paperback || James Barrat || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An urgent study of the history, science and existential dangers of Artificial Intelligence, named by Elon Musk as one of the five books everyone should read about the future.